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Creating drum patterns using Boom is very similar to the way you create drum patterns using a TR808 or 909. First you select a pattern and clear this. Switch the Edit mode to ‘Pattern Select’ and click on ‘Event Switch 1’, for example, then click the Clear button above the matrix display.

Delay effects exploit a DSP programming concept called circular buffering. A buffer is really just an array of values. When you use an index to step through the array, you can move in the forward (positive) or reverse (negative) direction by incrementing the index up or down. But when you get to a boundary of the array at the top …

One of the most controversial, creative, and important skills of a music editor is the ability to edit music which has already been recorded. This may seem to run contrary to the purpose of having music written for the movie, and indeed to the music editor’s primary goal of protecting and preserving intact the composer’s music as they originally conceived …

“Sure, I believe in rules . . . sure I do. If there weren’t any rules, now could you break them?” Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager; Hall of Fame, 1994 We all love the convenience and flexibility of those little apps on our workstations, plug-ins. They can be automated and recalled at any time. The plug-ins make available to …

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